Alonjar:A $10 cable from walmart is still $2 shipped online.. i paid ten cents per watch battery shipped from china, rather than getting two for like 4 bucks. Plastic organizers.. machine parts.. order so much these days, and it saves me a fortune.

LDM90:12349876: Just Another OC Homeless Guy: 12349876: Popcorn Johnny: Thanks for the reminder, I need to stop by and pick up a few things today.

And now back to your regularly scheduled "Walmart sucks" thread.

Have fun with the substandard selection, service, and cleaniness.

Seriously, putting aside any macroeconomic arguments, Wal Mart used to be the gold standard of big box stores. Now they're on the path to being the next K Mart.

Not sure what Walmart you shop at (Oh, you don't shop at Walmart? Then how do you know they suck?) but the ones I go to are all nicely lit, nicely laid out, have friendly and helpful staff, and have, for the most part (there are exceptions) decent quality merchandise. They all also seem to have a full range of customer types, from the stereotypical "Walmart shopper" to people that I would also see at a Vons Pavilions, Sears, or Nordstroms.

The Target's and Meijer's in my area are much nicer.

Target's what is nicer?

I'm not a Grammar NaziTM but why do people continue to put apostrophes before every s they type? Chri'st that i's annoying a's hell!

It was like reading a bunch of people defend how and why they took the ugliest girl home from the bar. "No dude she totally has a great sense of humor and treated me right. You're the idiot for not sleeping with ugly glaciers."

vabeard:I'm about to start shopping at WalMart. I've never been more than a once or twice a year shopper, usually when I had to get stuff for office parties or picnics.My hours have been cut by 4 hours per week/8 hours (one day) per paycheck. Utilities are heading up. And Wednesday, I underwent an emergency appendectomy, I'll have extra bills associated with that. I figure their low cost staples will help me out.

Heh...all I could think is "surgical staples...not really the best place to economize"...

Popcorn Johnny:dstrick44: And their merchandise is the opposite of quality.

Yes, they only sell cheap Chinese knockoffs.

If you want melamine in your milk or baby formula, Walmart is your source.If you buy name brands and not Sam's Choice, prices are comparable anywhere.The clothes and shoes literally fall apart. And they consistently open 1 out of 12 checkout lines.Whole departments go unmanned after 6:00 or so, but that's only a problem if you work days.And don't get me started on the well documented depressing effect Walmart has on communities.The only reason I go there is they closed ALL the locally owned stores in my town. If I need socks there is literally nowhere else to go.Not to mention the "Dead Peasant" policies that Walmart execs seem to have invented.Now why don't you do something more honorable, like shill for human traffickers or something. Walmart is not going to have sex with you.

Infobahn:It would be interesting to see if Target or Costco sales are higher. Aspirational shoppers.

/too lazy to look

Done in one.

This article is the first one that has ever made me want to reach through my monitor and strangle the author for being such a farktard. Even beyond Palintard.

The writer goes above and beyond the sheer ranks of stupidity (by not comparing apples to apples in the first place) by citing another of his own fricking articles as a reference to prove his case. And his stupidity worsens... his previous article completely negates his current hypothesis:

What is true is that "general merchandise stores" (department stores and similar) suffered a 4 percent decline. That's ugly. But autos were up, grocery stores were up, apparel stores were up, restaurants were up, and the exciting nonstore retailers category soared 14 percent.

So basically department stores in general took a hit. Which is probably why the tard didn't compare sales from similar stores in this article. And to compare Walmart to Whole Foods??? Fricking tard.